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Northfield market report B31 4, Birmingham
The B31 4 (Northfield) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,235 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in B31 4 (Birmingham) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in B31 4 (Birmingham) came in at £245,000, out of 42 registered, up 32% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £239,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,235 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
B31 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside B31 (Birmingham). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where B31 4 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in B31 4
In the B31 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £245,000, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £239,300, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in B31 4
A square metre of B31 4 home has cost about £2,800 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving B31 4 14% below the national figure.
The price of a typical B31 4 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 136 |
| 2024 | £225,000 | £239,221 | 113 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 103 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 123 |
| 2021 | £185,000 | £234,234 | 144 |
| 2020 | £168,000 | £217,983 | 127 |
| 2019 | £162,000 | £212,343 | 138 |
| 2018 | £153,000 | £203,952 | 141 |
| 2017 | £147,000 | £200,493 | 148 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 127 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 142 |
| 2014 | £123,000 | £174,497 | 110 |
| 2013 | £115,200 | £165,761 | 115 |
| 2012 | £115,000 | £169,266 | 97 |
| 2011 | £109,500 | £165,303 | 110 |
| 2010 | £104,000 | £163,099 | 81 |
| 2009 | £100,500 | £161,555 | 88 |
| 2008 | £114,000 | £186,870 | 105 |
| 2007 | £123,500 | £209,490 | 175 |
| 2006 | £117,000 | £203,097 | 170 |
| 2005 | £112,000 | £199,315 | 162 |
| 2004 | £104,000 | £188,884 | 181 |
| 2003 | £90,000 | £165,802 | 163 |
| 2002 | £73,000 | £137,349 | 183 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 182 |
| 2000 | £55,000 | £107,938 | 158 |
| 1999 | £50,700 | £101,042 | 178 |
| 1998 | £47,500 | £95,882 | 141 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 123 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 113 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical B31 4 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 168%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the B31 4 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.4% | +8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.1% | +2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in B31 4
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 42 sales completed in B31 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 172 sales a year before the financial crisis and 103 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the B31 4 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes B31 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around B31 4
The local authority for B31 4 is Birmingham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,088 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £821 a month here against £1,563 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Birmingham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £245,000 median sold price, £1,088 a month is £13,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Asked and answered: B31 4 (Northfield)
How much did a house sell for in B31 4 (Northfield)?
Are property prices falling in B31 4 (Northfield)?
Is B31 4 (Northfield) a good place to buy a house?
Are B31 4 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
B31's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 548 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole B31 district, not just B31 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 40% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every B31 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in B: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the B area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £306,000 | £425,000 (+39%) | £665,000 (+56%) | £950,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £240,000 (+14%) | £300,000 (+25%) | £418,250 (+39%) | £535,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £187,500 | £200,000 (+7%) | £235,000 (+18%) | £315,000 (+34%) | £397,000 (+26%) |
| Flat | £130,000 | £179,500 (+38%) | £299,000 (+67%) | £500,000 (+67%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the B area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
B area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in B31
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of B31, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| B31 1 | £217,500 | 36 |
| B31 2 | £260,000 | 71 |
| B31 3 | £234,800 | 46 |
| B31 5 | £252,500 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full B31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how B31 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in B31 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in B31 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the B31 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded B31 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working B31 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim B31 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with B31 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual B31 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.